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Quotation from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”
Orthodoxy, Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity (Project Gutenberg #130)
The thesis of the chapter: the Church holds opposite virtues together at full strength rather than averaging them.
Citation: "Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious." — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity (Project Gutenberg #130). (id chesterton-orthodoxy-q7)
Portrait: Gilbert Chesterton, Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain.
